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Josu Jon Imaz

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1.0
Nov 21, 2016
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Pros

- 401k setup - 9/80 work schedule - Nice office - Talisman Acquisition brought in some great talent (sadly some have been laid-off)

Cons

-Training and Development is terrible. Quality of classes is poor and external training takes forever to get approval if at all. - Pay and vacation for young people is not competitive with other E&P companies. - Terrible managers who sit back and collect giant pay checks. - Low quality leadership. They have said decreasing workplace negativity is a goal and then we have 2 days of layoffs in one week. - Zero guidance until a deadline is approaching and then suddenly management cares about your work. - Everything happens last minute here. - Few qualified senior technical people to offer advice and help to young people - Safety is seen as a joke. People laugh about reckless driving in the parking garage. - Staff organization makes no sense. - No one feels appreciated. - Spanish culture dominates and it isn't a good one. - No communication between different groups - Management doesn't communicate to their teams - When oil goes up people are going to leave here so fast!

2.0
Oct 31, 2015
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Pros

-Good 401k matching program - The acquisition with Talisman brought in a lot of great talent - Good office location - 9/80 work schedule - Some good managers (just very few) - Some people seem to enjoy their work here and share their enthusiasm through classes - With the oil price being so low, this is a great place for job security - Personal/Work life has a good balance - A variety of projects all over the world so you can get exposure to different types of projects - They try to teach non-Spanish speakers Spanish through classes. (Free language classes)

Cons

- The training and development is not very organized. Very few classes are organized in the Houston office, most are in Madrid which makes no financial sense considering we are in Houston where most training companies have their classrooms, therefore most employees don't get much training. -Pay is not competitive with other E&P companies. - No career development. - Locals get a lot fewer vacation days than expats. - Managers/team leaders who seem to be dissatisfied with their job. - 80% of the conversations around me on a daily basis are in Spanish-- so much for transparency (one of Repsol's values) - Practically zero guidance . A new employee can only do so much on their own. Many interns complain about sitting around all summer with nothing to do. - The Madrid office doesnt seem to trust the Houston office and is always making decisions despite being thousands of miles away. - Safety is overlooked and inadequate, both in the office and field. We moved into a new building over a year ago and my floor has still never had a real fire drill. In the field, managers did not wear proper PPEs. Leading by example isnt something they care about. - Preferential treatment to Ex-patriots. - Organization in this company is lacking. Decisions are made and released and 2 months later changed. -The company never seems to learn from their mistakes. -Little feedback on how to improve. - Cafe food is overpriced - It feels like people are always trying to have the upper-hand on information so they don't share information at all or a few weeks after they get the original data. I personally dont understand being competitive within the same team. Let's work together so we can all get ahead. - While budget cuts are happening all around us in the US it seems like people in Madrid are doing more training and traveling to more places. In other countries they are relocating the offices due to financial reasons, but in Madrid they just made the decision to turn off the lights at night. Everyone should be making budget cuts at the same time.

1.0
Sep 16, 2014
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Pros

Flexible work hours; 9/80 option available

Cons

Huge cultural differences; supervisors and co-workers would talk amongst themselves in Spanish during meetings as well as standing behind you at your cube. It was a very negative environment

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